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Scheduled IVF consult...
After a lot of thinking and being frusterated since this cycle is canceled due to a cyst... and the fear of endo coming back, and turning 36, and MFI... and having pretty crappy insurance overall so will likely be OOP, I was wondering why am I obligated to try IUI when RE doesn't think it will be that likely to work?
Well, I called and spoke to the nurse and she totally understood and set us up for a consult next week! Since I am on BCP to get rid of this stupid cyst, I feel like I am already priming my body for that path anyway. I don't have the money to 'fail' several IUI cycles, and then move on to IVF. Especially hearing that many of you regretted not going to IVF sooner.
Oh- and my friend from back east just called and told me she is 15 weeks preg- of course she is! She was worried it would never happen since she didn't cycle regularily, then of course it just did- surprise 
She figured it out at about 8 weeks by accident. If we could only be so lucky.
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Re: Scheduled IVF consult...
I feel it prudent to point out that those who end up doing IVF often wish they had done things differently in retrospect... since they ended up at IVF anyway. However, doing IVF isn't a foregone conclusion and MANY women are successful and don't end up having to do IVF. I think I read somewhere that only about 10% of IF'ers actually ever get to the point of IVF. So that's 90% of IF'ers who have success with TI or IUI. I'm not saying that IVF isn't the best path for you, I'm just saying that recent "poll" on here, is inherently biased due to the nature of the respondants.
Best of luck to you in your upcoming cycle. IVF is a wild ride, more emotionally extreme than anything else I've experienced in my adult life.
Because we're fancy like that.
i kind of agree with you - we got pg our first TI/clomid cycle and after the m/c I have had multiple medicated and one sponataneous cycle...I am going to try a few more cycles with injectibles but if I don't get pg and all the tests come back fine (which so far they have), I think I am going to throw in the towel and shoot for IVF...
I also heard that only 10% of IF people need IVF...and given that my issue was dx as PCOS, DH is great and we got pg once, I in theory shouldn't need it....but something tells me if we go 1 yr post m/c and don't get pg then something else is wrong and probably something IUI can't fix....plus we have no IUI coverage so if we tried 3 cycles of it and got bfn's we'd be out the cost of a mini-stim IVF anyway....
Good luck!!